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Case Studies:
Team: Saumya Khandelwal, Tobias Thiele
Country: Nepal, Bangladesh
This production showcases how NGOs and institutions can benefit from working with a small, highly specialised agency for ethical film making in sensitive contexts.
The Institute of Development Studies requested a film to promote their innovative participatory research CLARISSA where working children themselves lead the study and their pathway to overcome the worst forms of labour.
Rather than focusing deeply on the issue of child labour itself, the film shows the innovative methodology to encourage an audience of researchers and decision makers to consider this participatory action research rather than the traditional pre-structured approach.
The interested audience should be pointed at the research outcomes on the programme’s website to get more familiar with the concept and understand its benefits.
This demanding goal led to a very open and constructive concepting stage, a team setup with fantastic photojournalist Saumya Khandelwal as the film’s host and narrator and an agile production in scenes of night clubs, toxic leather production and inspiring interviews.
Client
Institute of Development Studies
Year
2024
“Tobias was a joy to work with. His professionalism, attention to detail, and constructive responses to feedback were exemplary. His ability to quickly grasp what we were trying to do was really important. We think that the film he made, captured the complexities of a very sensitive subject – conveying both the sobering nature of children’s working lives and the inspirational work that they were able to do. We are extremely happy with the collaboration and will certainly look for opportunities to work with Tobias again.”
Photographer: Ranita Roy
Country: India
This photo and video series was produced to feature the workers, business owners and human rights activists within sustainable textile production of Fairtrade in India. Ranita Roy’s exceptional visual language sets light motion and emotion in a unique balance. While esthetically strong and charaacteristic, her pictures always stay close and true to the subjects.
Client
Fairtrade Germany
Year
2023
Worker at a stitching factory in Tirupur, India
Photography by Ranita Roy / goodmessage.media
Team Indonesia: Nyimas Laula, Rizky Rahad,
Team Peru: Ángela Ponce, Omar Quezada Beltrán
Kenya: Nyokabi Kahura
How resilient are we as a society, and as individuals, when a crisis shakes the world? No matter who we are, or where we live, chances are the pandemic has transformed our life. The same applies to the farmers supplying the world’s food, whose stories often go untold.
Meet Ponisih, Caroline and Roberto and get an inside look at the challenges, fears and hopes of three farmers refusing to give up, and standing for a fair future.
This unscripted documentary series, filmed in Indonesia, Kenya and Peru, will show how their real lives evolve over half a year.
In each location, a team of local filmmakers with links to social activism is capturing what is happening. Each with a unique style, true to who they are and what they see, they have been instrumental in arriving at moving, authentic portraits.
This filmseries was produced as a staff member of Fairtrade Germany with co-producer Thorsten Kleinschmidt and Fairpicture.
This documentary and the activities are partly funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Client
Fairtrade International
Year
2021-2022
Photographer: Nyokabi Kahura
Country: Kenya
The Kenyan NGO „Sustainable Agriculture Community Development Programme Kenya“ (SACDEP) supports young people from the rural Lamu region to gain sustainable income from agriculture. The German Catholic Rural Youth organization KLJB supports the project and aimed for increased visibility of the achievements. Together with film maker Nyokabi Kahura and SACDEP we created two personal stories in one film that is being used in various presentations throughout Germany. The result is a great example of authentic storytelling that promotes a local sensitive perspective and that gains impact across boarders.
Photographer: Mohamed Aly Diabaté
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
Mohamed Aly Diabaté documented and captured the cocoa farmers hard work and struggle for living incomes in. He portrayed Doumbia Assata Kone who made it from a cocoa farmer to the first chair lady of the cooperative. “We have shown that we as women ca do it”, she says.
Client
Fairtrade Germany
Year
2022
Doumbia Assata, president of the board of directors
at ECAM cocoa cooperative, Côte d'Ivoire
Photography by Mohamed Aly Diabaté / goodmessage.media
Archive Collection:
Behind the scenes, portraits, and action. A glimps of the last years’ work.
